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Ephefianc,Chap.6.
giving our
names
to Chrilt,
we did endeavour
in all
things
to
ferve
hits.
Hence
it
is,
that
they
who
now
moll
complaine, willfay, they
once
th
oughtthemfelves
well enough,and every little thing
too
much
forwardneffc, before
God
touched them more
merely.
Now
followeth the third
thing,
who
it
is
that
doth
in
all
things
strive againft us
! The
Devill
and
his
Angels. This the Scripture
hash
of
old taught
,
God
putting enmity betweene the ferpent and the
feed
of
the woman,and therefore the
Devil
by eminency
is
called
the
Tempter,
r
Thef.3.5. And
his
hatred
is
fo
great,
that
there
is
nothing
from which
he will
not
take occafion
to
be dealing with us.
For
as
God doth
work
the
perfeéting
of
his
by the
buffeting
oft
he
Devill
:
fo
Satan
doth
turnethe
belt
graces
of
God to matter
of
temptation.
But
for the clearing
of
this,
we
mutt
know
that
the Devill doth
fome-
times
tempt
us
immediately
:
as
Ananias,
Aöls
5.3.
Judas,
Luke
a
2.2.
Secondly,
thus
:
in
temptation
of
blafphemy,
felfe-
murder,
in
the
judgement which
he
bringeth,
and
in
this manner
Chrilt
was temp-
ted,
in
two
temptations
;
and
lobs
body
and
goods were touched
by
him.
Now
he
is
plainly wraftling
in
this kinde,but
in
thofe things where-
in
he
is
not the next mover, yet
is
the
fir1l
and
moreremote
agent;
and
therefore they may be
faid
in
fouie
things to
wfii(tle againft
us
:
As
when the things
of
this
world arme themfelves, or the perlons
in
the
world doe
make
us
matter
;
Satan
is
a
principali
worker
in
them
all.
The
lait branch
is
to
be
filmed
in
the next
doecrine
:
the
things
of
the
world
,as glory,
riches,
pleafure, mutt not
be confidered
as
naked
things,
but
as
infrumentsby
his
ufe
lifted
up,
the
force they have
of
bewitching
and inveigling our
hearts from
God. Thus
he
ufed
the
glory
of
the world to Chrilt
as a
bait
to take
him with.
Thus,
x
Tim.
6.9.
riches are his fnarc
;
thus
the
apple
delighting the
eye and tafle,
was an
argument
he preferred to our
firft
Parents:
and
that
life in
thefe
things,which
fo
worketh
on
the
natural( man,
commeth partly from
Satan, which
is
alto
crucified
by the fame
croffe
ofChrift
by which
he
was fubdued.
z.
Saint
lames
faith,
that
our concupifcence withdrawing
us,
we
are tempted
of
it
:
but though
it
be
fo fruitfuil
a
parent
that
it can
without
mid-
wifery bring
forth alone: yet we
muff conceive it
fo,
that
for the moll
part,
our luit
is
moved and excited by thefe
evil) fpi-
rits, they blow the
coales up,and
are
the
fires
of
the
finnc
whereof
our
concupifcence
is
the mother
:
be not angry,give not
place
to the De-
vill,
the
Devill therefore ftirreth
up
anger
,
Ephef.
4. 26, 27. Davids
heart
did
fwell,butthe
Devill perfwaded
and moved
it,
x
Chron.ax.x.
The
widowes following luit, goe after the Devill ,
I
Tim.5.15. And
as
it
is
alwayes true
that
when
we doe any
good thing, we doe
it
from
the
principles
of
grace
in
us,
yet the fpirit giveth
us
the
will and
the
deed
:
fo when we doe
evil)
with-
drawne
by
our
concupifcence
,
the
Devill for the molt
part
doth
kindle
,
and excite
the
fin
which
dwels
in
us,
thatwe
may
fay it
is
true, The
Devil
is,
by
himfelfe, and by the
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